uBeam's insider story by ex employee?

Re:uBeam's insider story by ex employee? by hackaflocka on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:31AM (#11672672)

I remember the first time I saw a group of young VCs (in Palo Alto no less) in public. Walking down the street together. They looked like male supermodels. All of them perfectly dressed, tall, good looking, triathlon physiques...

As soon as I saw this, I could sense that this business is driven by "Confirmation Bias" and "Representativeness Bias", the Halo Effect.

These guys are hiring people who look like themselves, who do the same (extreme) sports like themselves, etc. It's a case of Steve Jobs looking for someone who looks like Steve Jobs, instead of the plump, dowdy, disheveled, and genius Steve Wozniak.

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Re:uBeam's insider story by ex employee? by Animats on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:29AM (#11673270)

When Facebook was in downtown Palo Alto, their early staff looked like that.

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Re:uBeam's insider story by ex employee? by galistoca on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:07PM (#11676563)

Looking at it from another direction, maybe it's because that's why they're good at dealing with founders and LPs? The point is, everyone has biases, and probably one bias results in another. You can't just say "They hire people who look like them" without thinking about why that happens.

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